LEAH GARCHIK'S PERSONALS

Published 4:00 am, Thursday, March 21, 1996

P-R-I-N-C-E, SO THERE

The musician formerly known as Prince is formally known as Prince in ads for Spike Lee's new movie, "Girl 6," where he is literally named as the star music-maker.

Warner Records' Karen Lee told Personals that the star hasn't abandoned his symbol. "The music was written before his name change," she said. "Most of it is from old albums" that were recorded by Prince. There are three new songs in the movie, but she says those are credited to Prince the songwriter, because they were written before he became a symbol.

THE LAND WE BELONG TO IS GRAND

From the day the University of Oklahoma announced that it would endow an Anita F. Hill professorship for the study of sexual harassment, there were critics.

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Supporters overcame many of the grounds for criticism, says Working Woman magazine, by raising private money -- some $250,000 -- for the endowment.

Opponents have taken to flights of oratorical fancy. Tim Pope, a Republican member of the state legislature, said the Hill professorship was like an "Adolf Hitler Chair for Creative Population Control"; Leonard Sullivan, another Republican lawmaker, likened it to a "Jeffrey Dahmer Chair in the School of Cooking."

Despite their opposition, the legislature is likely to approve matching funds.

A DYING LEARY

IS VISITED

Having been diagnosed with prostatic cancer some time ago, Timothy Leary has been dying slowly. According to New York magazine, the "deathbed vigil" at his house in Beverly Hills "has turned into a long farewell party."

This event is being videotaped for eventual release by Mercury Records as a documentary video with accompanying CD.

Among Leary's visitors: Yoko Ono, Winona Ryder (his goddaughter), Harry Dean Stanton and Bob Guccione Jr. "He is genuinely living his life to the end and refusing to be a victim," said Guccione. "Tim's last days run quite a long period of time, you understand."

-- WHO SAID WHAT

"On recent trips from Richmond and Miami, I learned that the sole purpose of minivan owners is to prevent normal people from reaching their destinations. . . . If it weren't so infuriating, it would be funny to watch these rolling roadblocks move immediately from the entrance ramp to the fast lane and park there at 55 mph completely oblivious to their surroundings. . . . The Anti-Destination League has long been a nemesis of mine, as I do virtually all of my travel by car. Now they have the minivan as their icon, their own symbol of progress prevention. I once saw a minivan in the right lane, but I later found out the driver was from England."

Letter to the editor of Car and Driver magazine from a reader in Richmond, Va.

"I have my lawyers and Hillary has hers."

Susan Thomases, former best friend of the first lady, quoted by Liz Trotta of the Washington Times.

BRONTES HAVE NOTHING ON THOSE WRITING TUCKERS

Former second lady Marilyn Tucker Quayle and her sister, Nancy Tucker Northcott, are promoting "The Campaign," their second novel, in East Coast bookstores this week.

According to the Washington Post, the book has a bit of violence "but no swearing and certainly no sex." "I wanted my children to be able to read the book," said Quayle, "and my father, too, and not be embarrassed."

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The plot concerns the nefarious forces that try to ambush the presidential campaign of fictional Republican Senator Phil Grant, an African American.

Mrs. Quayle told the Post that she had given the manuscript to her husband, the noted literary figure Dan Quayle, but he found nothing in it that he wanted to change. The Mr. will be on the road next month promoting his own book, "The American Family: Discovering the Values That Make Us Strong."

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